"A free market means that there is a free supply of and a free demand for gold that determines its purchasing power," Polleit says. "However, government-sponsored central banks also play a role in affecting the supply of and demand for gold through, for instance, lease transactions. In that sense market conditions are influenced, and at times greatly so, by government interference -- and therefore do not correspond with the principles guiding a free market."

Schall's interview with Polleit is headlined "It Isn't Capitalism That Has Caused the Crisis" and it's posted at Gold Switzerland here:

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